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TIL that Zelda Fitzgerald wrote 'plagiarism begins at home' in response to her husband, F.Scott Fitzgerald, ripping off lines from her diary for his novels.

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d8gm9 TIL about the sport of "Tank Biathlon", a sport promoted by Russia where tank crews compete on a course like biathletes in the Olympics.
7vp7 TIL that paintings done by elephants aren’t learned talents, but rather their trainers guiding their trunk with the brush using a sharp nail behind the ear.
oR4WY TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community.
E1ZXX TIL Guillermo del Toro talked with Universal to direct a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon, tried pitching a version where the Creature ended up together with the female lead, the studio rejected the concept. However, The Shape of Water received a leading 13 nominations at the 90th Oscars.
AD87 TIL: Gas stations (and other merchants) can’t have a “minimum purchase amount” when you use a credit/debit card…regardless of what they try to tell you…